BASH question
M.Lewis
cajun at cajuninc.com
Thu Sep 7 07:36:36 UTC 2006
Andy Green wrote:
> M.Lewis wrote:
>>
>> I thought this was simple, but I've not yet been able to figure out
>> what is wrong.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> PERMINUTE=$((28.95/432000))
>
> No floating point support :-) But even then, be liberal with spaces
>
> PERMINUTE=$(( 29 / 432000 ))
>
> -Andy
>
Thanks Andy, that resolved the error, but returns $PERMINUTE as 0. It
should be something like .00067xxxxx. Is there a way to do that?
Thanks,
Mike
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